wait, what? does it download as some proprietary format and not a normal video file then?

I wasn’t, to be clear, advocating for them, just pointing out that they were one of those things tech bros keep suggesting over and over again. I don’t suspect they’re something to really worry about, because I don’t really expect the economics of them to work out.

Oh I mean you can replace them, but when nothing of the original system remains you’re not so much optimizing the idea as throwing it out to use trains instead

What about those giant quadcopter type things they keep wanting to build to fly from building rooftops in cities for some reason?

I mean his military. If it gets ground down badly enough, him ordering them to keep fighting would be of little consequence, because armies fight with weapons and ammunition and manpower, not just on pure will.

of course not, but if things get bad enough for him, he may not have a choice

Russia actually can’t go on forever. There’s a reason they’re having to buy bottom of the barrel artillery shells from North Korea of all places. They’ve had gigantic reserves from the cold war to burn through, but they have been burning through it.

Well, we don’t actually know that the next administration won’t support them any. We assume they won’t because of Trump’s attitude to Ukraine, but the republicans have been somewhat divided over the issue, and Trump just does whatever he randomly feels like, and sending more military aid does benefit the MIC that can pay politicians, so it possible, if unlikely, that they’d get some support from them. There’s also the possibility of support from Europe or elsewhere in the world. Finally, while a Ukrainian loss without foreign support seems quite likely, the pace of Russia’s advances and resource expendature are such that a win for them is no longer likely to be “annex Ukraine or make it a puppet rump state”, but more “take a strip of land close to the current occupation line”, in which case a stronger Ukraine has a better negotiating position and so may be able to give up less.

Isnt this the exact reason why there was such concern over the idea of Threads federating with the fediverse at large?

well no, there just arent any wind turbines as far as I remember. No solar either

I mean, theres geothermal

Satisfactory is a weird game where coal and oil are renewable, but trees, as far as I’m aware, are not.

Might not be much meat to some of the skeleton jokes, but at least they have good bones.

Given that Iran has it’s own orbital launch capability these days, I wonder why they’re getting Russia to launch them?

if they were randomly placed, then couldnt you have a sponsor-block type system where instead of the ad segments being marked and skipped, information about the video is externally stored somewhere (like perhaps a really low res screenshot of the video every couple seconds, or some number generated algorithmically by a frame of video), and the results should be the same for all users for the actual video part, but if the ads are placed randomly, the ad section will suddenly not match the data other users had, prompting the video to skip until it matches again (with a buffer included if they remove the ability to move forward)

Not hard to find when it’s hogging so much space at the top of the map

Those wouldn’t be detectable in quite the same way as the reddit “repost a post from awhile ago that got a lot of upvotes because that post is proven to be popular” type karma farmer bots though, I’d figure? Especially given that AI nowadays would allow for them to not just repeat the same comments

Do karma farming bots even have any point on lemmy though?

its a scene from the muppet movie (the original one) The man talking to Kermit (same guy in all the panels) was physically thrown out of the bar, and Kermit suggests that he complain to the bar’s owner, but the man in question reveals that he is said owner, who has been thrown out by the bar’s violent patrons.

Sweden in general seems to have way more good game dev companies than most countries, especially most of similar size. I kinda wonder why.